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I C. TERRY.

GAR TBUGK. No. 270,152. Patented Jan. 2, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. V IRA O. TERRY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

CAR-TRUCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,152, dated January 2, 1883.

7 Application filed June 15, 1882. (N 0 model.)

To all whom it mayconcem Be it known that I. IRA'O. TERRY, of the city of St. Louis, in the Stateof Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Truck Attachments forR-ailway-Oars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the ac companying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which I Figure 1 is a side elevation; Fig. 2, an end view; Fig. 3, a section on line 3 3, Fig. 6; Fig. 4, a detail side view; Fig. 5, an end view, and Fig. 6 a top view, ol the truck. Fig. 7 is an enlarged detail view.

This invention relates to an improvement on the Letters Patent No. 224,694, issued to me 8th June, 1880; and it relates to hanging the intermediate car-truck-t'rom the bottom of the car;body in such a manner that it lnay have a free lateral movement beneath the car.

A represents the bottom of the car-body.

B B are the end trucks, connected to the body in the usual way, and D is the intermediate truck, whose bolster E is connected to it by a king-bolt, F, as usual.

G Gare parallel strips, connected to the bottom of the car-body.

H 'H are arms pivoted to the centers of the pieces G-two on each side of the truck-and having pivoted to their other ends hangers I,

whose upper ends are secured to the bolster termediate trucks may be applied to the car,

if desired. 7

I claim as my invention- The car body and truck connected by means of arms and hangers, substantially as shown and described, for the purpose set forth.

IRA. O. TERRY. Witnesses:

SI ML. KNIGHT, GEO. H. KNIGHT. 

